Techno Babble
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Businesses these days are looking for ways to build engagement with their target audience. Online forums and blog comments provide an environment to engage in a dialogue about a brand, service or product. However, the remarks posted by site users can sometimes result in legal consequences both for themselves and the owner of the website. Parties who are the victim of defamatory statements can and do seek legal remedies.
Everyone knows that e-commerce transactions are on the rise. Unfortunately so is credit card fraud. To counter threats to sensitive credit card information, the five major credit card companies Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover and JCB aligned their individual policies in 2004 in the form of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The PCI standards impose strict guidelines on what store vendors need to do in order to accept, process and retain credit card information. Non-PCI compliant vendors are exposed to fines or even loss of their merchant account rights. So it is important for all business owners accepting credit cards to understand their obligations.

Google has announced they will be sending out invitations to 100,000 Google Wave beta testers this week and the final release is predicted by the end of the year. Google Wave promises to do for desktop communications what the iPhone did for mobile devices – simplifying our lives by combining many popular activities on one platform. It looks as though Google is eager to push online communication to the next evolutionary step.